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Corrections medicine previews new dashboard as staff call out data gaps and staffing pressures
Summary
Corrections medicine staff unveiled a draft quarterly dashboard tracking medical, psychiatric, dental and social-work contacts, noting missing datasets and that dips in service counts mostly reflect staffing shortages and rising census.
Eva presented a draft corrections‑medicine dashboard and said the tool is not final, noting several external datasets remain to be integrated and that the current charts should be seen as a work in progress. "This is not a final product," she said, and asked board members for feedback while IT and dataset work continue.
Staff told the board that dips in visit counts are mainly related to staffing: periods when staff were short or when a dentist retired and clinic maintenance reduced capacity. Eva said psychiatry encounters will appear in the next quarter after a psychiatrist who started the previous week is captured in the data. She and analytics staff asked for time to validate and finalize metrics before republishing the full dashboard.
Board members discussed restoring an older metric on mental‑health prevalence among incoming detainees; participants recalled prior estimates as high as 75–80% and asked staff to consider including reliable mental‑health and substance‑use indicators once Epic reporting is available.
